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Huvadhoo Aid in 2010 Huvadhoo Aid in 2010 Written by: Ahmed Ameez Assitant Executive Director About us Huvadhoo Aid (Former Hoadedhdhoo Association for Development) is a non-governmental, youth organization located in Gaaf Dhaal Atoll. HAD was founded in 1987 as Hoadedhdhoo Zuvananunge Jamiyya and then renamed to Hoadedhdhoo Association for Development in 1997 following restructuring. HAD‟s mission is to achieve rural socio-economic development of youth, women, disabled people and the community, as well as to increase active citizenship and civic participation, strengthen civil society organizations, promote responsible governance, and improve the image of the Maldives throughout the world. HAD also believes that good democratic, equitable governance and a prosperous society can be built only through achieving constructive civic participation. With the outstanding dvelopment of HAD the restructing process continued to move towards a third generation NGO. With the change of motive scope of programmes, targeted benificiaries the name has changed to Huvadhoo Aid from 3 May 2010. The Restructuring process is in progress. Under the process HAD volunteers Co had been established . HAD primarily works to improve the quality of life for Huvadhu atoll population, especially, youth, women, and the disabled. Thus, consultations with local government officials, the Island Development Committee, the Women‟s Development Committee, civil society organizations, and the local community are ongoing to develop and jointly implement projects that address community needs. Additionally, HAD‟s other target groups – with which they primarily work on capacity building – are other civil society organizations and local communities throughout the southernmost atolls of the Maldives. HAD is an entirely volunteer-run organization with a total of 273 members. The 13 person executive committee is democratically elected by other members of the organization and is supported by local, national, and foreign volunteers. HAD‟s organizational structure encourages leadership, but is also horizontally integrated to allow for members to flexibly interact for holistic problem solving. To effectively manage multiple projects and its expanding membership, HAD is divided into six units managed by executive board members, which are: programme development, project implementation unit, youth and sports development, finance and administration, HAD Biz, and the Male office. Additionally, the executive committee and other volunteers meets at least once a month to discuss socio-economic development issues, social issues, gender issues, and environment issues, and any other relevant community, regional, or national project(s) being undertaken. HAD is an extremely active organization that maintains, develops, and undertakes multiple projects holistically and simultaneously. To successfully achieve its mission and objectives, HAD runs programs and projects in the areas of environment, employment, education, and healthcare. Huvadhoo Aid in 2010 © Ahmed Ameez, Asst Executive Director www.huvadhoo aid.org Programmes Life Skills Programme to grade 10 students of Hoadedhdhoo School Hoadedhoo Association for Development had conducted a life skills session to Grade 10 students of Hoadedhoo School in collaboration with Hoadedhdhoo School. The program aimed to aware students about the life skills they need to face the challenges in day to day life such as decision making, critical thinking, empathy etc. At the opening speech by HAD‟s Assistant Director Youth and Sports Mr. Muaz Mohamed said that HAD‟s objective is to change the youth‟s attitude towards moderate thinking and youth participation in all aspects of development in the society. He also emphasized on HAD‟s objective in contributing to the government‟s goal of holistic education. The session was held at Main Hall of Hoadedhdhoo School in which students presented role plays of different life skills. The session was facilitated by HAD‟s Director General Mr. Ahmed Ameez Huvadhoo Aid in 2010 © Ahmed Ameez, Asst Executive Director www.huvadhoo aid.org Seminar to aware people on decentralisation and get public opinion on the proposed decentralisation bill to the People’s Majlis Hoadedhoo Association for Development (HAD) in collaboration with Maldives Youth Action Network (MYAN) had conducted a seminar to aware people on decentralization and get public opinion on the proposed decentralizatio n bill to the People‟s Majlis. In the opening speech by HAD‟s Director General Mr. Ahmed Ameez said that the role of NGOs is vital in democratization process and NGOs can act as a link to deliver the pulse of people and their opinions on various issues to the government and parliamentarians. The first session was on importance of decentralization for the rural development and the session was facilitated by HAD‟s Executive director Mr. Imad Mohamed. Imad emphasized on elements of decentralization, types of decentralization, levels of decentralization and challenges to rural development. He said that decentralization will bring positive changes to the islands and atolls. The second session was aimed to get public opinion on various articles in the proposed decentralization bill to the parliament. The session mainly focused on island councils, atoll councils and local council authority. People presented at the seminar expressed their views and suggestions on various articles in the bill. This session was facilitated by HAD‟s Assistant Executive Director Mr. Mohamed Mauroof. After the sessions facilitators answered the questions by the participants. The opinions and suggestions acquired from the seminar will be passed on to the parliamentarians. Huvadhoo Aid in 2010 © Ahmed Ameez, Asst Executive Director www.huvadhoo aid.org Meeting with NGOs based in Nadella Hoadedhoo Association for Development had conducted a meeting with NGOs based in the island of Nadella. In the meeting HAD shared the process of forming a Sports Association of Hoadedhoo (SAH) and the organizational structure of the Sports Association. HAD‟s Executive Director Mr. Imad Mohamed said that the current government‟s policy is to establish sports associations at island and atoll levels and urged the NGOs of Nadella to form a sports Association in Nadella. In addition to this information was also collected on challenges to free and fair elections and the role of NGOs to overcome these challenges. After the meeting HAD‟s Executive Director started the special volley ball match organised by Nadella island Development Society(NIDS) to mark the international women‟s day. Go Hoadedhdhoo Friendship Camp 2010 Hoadedhdhoo Assocciation for Dvelopment had conducted “Go Hoadedhdhoo Fiendship Camp” in association with Maldives Youth Action Network form 16 – 17 April 2010. The camp intended to bring the NGOs based in Huvadhoo Atoll to a common platform and share each other‟s knowledge and experience to bring a positive change to our communities. In addition it aimed to boost the capacity of NGOs through capacity building sessions and aware youth leaders on environment and climate change The camp was inaugurated by the Vice president of the Maldives Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik. He Huvadhoo Aid in 2010 © Ahmed Ameez, Asst Executive Director www.huvadhoo aid.org highlighted that today‟s youth are tomorrow‟s leaders and it is important to empower and build a healthy youth and more programs should be conducted to the youth by the NGOs. Deputy State Minister of Home affairs Mr. Mohamed Shareef also spoke in the briefing session of the camp and said that he hope that the camp would enhance a resolution on challenges to youth and others challenges to the islands and that resolution would be sent to the Upper South Province Office. Two NGOs from Hoadedhdhdoo, Hoadedhdhoo School, Hoadedhdhoo Health Centre, two NGOs from Thinadhoo, Thinadhoo Police Satiation and two NGOs from Nadella participated which totaled to 40 participants. Sessions on environment, Police business plan, Strategic Planning and Proposal Writing were conducted. Apart from these sessions a night fishing trip and volleyball match between participants from other islands and participants from Hoadedhdhoo was an important part of the Camp. The most important part of the camp was the Youth Forum which was a summarized views and suggestions on all the challenges and problem discussed in previous sessions taken. Main areas discussed in the Youth Forum were environmental problems, police Service, Challenges to Youth in Upper South Province and challenges to free and fair elections. The suggestions and views will be formulated as a resolution and will be sent to the respective government offices. After the forum certificates were given to the participants and HAD‟s Executive Director Mr. Imad Mohamed thanked all the participants and specially the organizing partners. “I choose to know my rights” – Civic Education workshop in Hoadedhdhoo Transparency Maldives had conducted a workshop in Hoadedhoo in association with Hoadedhdhoo Association for Development. The workshop was the part of the “I choose to know my rights” project carried out by Transparency Maldives. Sessions on human rights, sysetems of governance and government of the Maldives and responsibilities of citizen‟s and civil society to rectify things. 13 Students of grade 10 , 3 teachers and 9 participants from NGOs participated in the workshop. Sessions were facilitated by the experts in the relative field from Transparency Maldives and president‟s office. Certificates were given to the participants by
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